Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 723. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicomedia. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ 39mm (37.91 gm). HRWC ANTINOOC, bare head right / H MHTROPOLIC NIKOMEDEIA, bull standing right; crescent moon on flank. Blum pg. 45, 1; Waddington, RG pg.522, 45; BMC Pontus -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 7102 (this coin). VF, brown patina with touches of red, slightly porous surfaces. ($3000)

Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 358; Münzen und Medaillen 52 (19-20 June 1975), lot 643; Von Aulock Collection, 7102.